Enodia portlandia
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Species of butterfly
| Enodia portlandia | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Enodia |
| Species: | E. portlandia
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| Binomial name | |
| Enodia portlandia | |
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Enodia portlandia, the southern pearly eye, Portland pearlyeye or just pearly eye, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the United States from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas east through the southeast.[3]
The wingspan is 56–70 mm. Adults feed on sap, rotting fruit, carrion and dung.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Arundinaria tecta . The species overwinters in the larval stage.
Subspecies
[edit ]- Enodia portlandia portlandia
- Enodia portlandia floralae (Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974)
- Enodia portlandia missarkae (Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974)
References
[edit ]- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Lethe portlandia Southern Pearly-Eye". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Enodia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Butterflies and Moths of North America